3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (414+ words) Park workers excavated 3,000 pounds of fossil and rock National Park Service employees may have just uncovered one of the longest dinosaurs on Earth. Crews working on construction at the Dinosaur National Monument's Utah parking lot last September stumbled upon the…...

22+ hour ago   (422+ words) Findings offer strong evidence that ancient Italians regularly consumed fermented food and beverages Italians began exploring a varied diet sometime between the 7th and 6th centuries BC, according to a new analysis of ancient teeth from Iron Age Italians. Unravelling details about…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (490+ words) Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks…...

4+ day, 31+ min ago   (146+ words) Secrets of medieval traders revealed by discovery of huge Viking ship off Denmark'The Independent Secrets of medieval traders revealed by discovery of huge Viking ship - Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever Viking "super ship", named Svaelget 2, off Copenhagen, Denmark, dating to…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (701+ words) Archaeologists say ship was built with timber from modern-day Poland and the Netherlands Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever medieval "super ship" dating back to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a rethink of the scale of medieval trade across northern Europe....

6+ day, 51+ min ago   (366+ words) It might not be Indiana Jones, but a growing number of budding archaeologists from around the world are getting hands-on at community digs across Britain. Ben Eley joins DigVentures at Lindisfarne to explore the surprising wellbeing benefits of unearthing Britain's…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (828+ words) New research has found the oldest evidence yet of poison on stone arrow tips in South Africa The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt, dating to 4,000 years ago. It was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (521+ words) The site in the Wicklow mountains is also Ireland's earliest proto-town A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the "largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain". Researchers at Queen's University Belfast also contend the site, located just south…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (494+ words) Prehistoric humans had advanced planning abilities and understood how poisons worked over time Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (114+ words) New study may have solved mystery of Voynich manuscript - A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted message. - Science journalist Michael Greshko created the 'Naibbe cipher', a…...